Contents of the HDTABLE.TXT file

Hard disks vary in many ways. The controller board must be told severalimportant parameters in order to interface properly with a particulardisk drive. The BIOS ROM on your hard disk controller board contains several possible hard disk parameter tables. There areusually between four and sixteen sets to choose from.

Sometime you may change drives and want to use a new parameter tableentry. They are selectable by jumpers on the board. The manufacturer of the drive will tell you what parameters are required.

The program HDTABLE.COM will read out the parameter table from the controller board so you can chose the entry that is best for your drive.